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| 1. 2011/06/08 00:24
"Oliver Twist" was a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood was based on the 1838 novel of the same title by Charles Dickens. The film was preceded by numerous adaptations, including several feature films, three television movies, two miniseries, and a stage musical that became an Academy Award-winning movie in 2006. I have not seen any one of the film or TV versions of Charles Dickens' 1837 classic, and had no basis of comparison for Polanski's take on Oliver Twist. That might be a good thing, as I had no preoccupied what this film ought to be. At first, I saw the young boy Oliver Twist was forcibly brought to an orphanage. He and the other children was treated poorly and provided with very little food. Then, Oliver was sent to Mr. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker whose wife and senior apprentice took an instant dislike to the newcomer. He took more poor treatment. At that time, it seemed there was hopeless in Oliver’s life. Everyone in his life was not friendly to him. The turning point was after Oliver escaping to London where he was taken in by the kind but quirky Fagin and his ragtag bunch of street rats. Soon, Oliver was being groomed to join their gang. If we didn’t take the thing which Oliver was forced to learn the ability to steal into account, I thought it was one of the better situations in Oliver’s life. In this movie, I was impressed by some characters. Firstly, it was Oliver. He had the purest eyes I have ever seen. Since he was young, he was forced to encounter the indifferent world by himself. Cruel life didn’t beat Oliver down. He overcame the difficulties one by one. We could see Oliver’s growth clearly in the movie. At first, he took all poor life for granted and he didn’t rebel against what applied to him. Gradually, he got to know to strive for his rights. That’s growth which I needed to learn. Secondly, I wanted to talk about Fagin, the crooked fellow as a leader of London thieves and pickpockets. In his life, he truly did many wrong things, but he also occasionally shone with glints of kindness towards Oliver. the Artful Dodger (Harry Eden) and the rest of his youthful gang, not to mention remorse over Nancy's fate, thus inspiring viewers' sympathies for the poor and downtrodden in 19th Century England and consideration of the truly moral dilemmas of that age. The last, I wanted to talk about Nancy . In the beginning, I didn’t like this character because I thought she was a flirt. It’s easy for me to take her as slattern. However, Nancy ’s behavior altered my impression to her. When Bill abused Oliver, Nancy was the only one who would protect him. Finally, Nancy even lost her life because she reveals that Oliver is staying with Fagin. It inspired me that no matter how ill of people, they might have the goodness in their mind. In the end, Polanski succeeded in creating a movie that, while it was a solid version, fell somewhat short of the more classical film versions of the Dickens novel. Then, this was still a film worth recommending. 2. 2011/06/08 01:26 "The Hours" is a 2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry, and starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris. The screenplay is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The opening which depicts the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within a single day in three different years, and alternates among them throughout the film. Just as the dialogue in the film "A woman's whole life in a single day, just one day, and in that day, her whole life. It's on this day, this day of all days, her fate becomes clear to her." I think that’s the core in the film. In fact, I can’t go into the plot at first, because it alternates so fast and disordered. When I am still recognizing the title characters, the story keeps going. More and more people show up in the film. Even I don’t know clearly what’s going on about the three women; I can still feel the weighty evoking by the plot as well as the music. In the film, the title character who impresses me the most is Richie. When he is a little boy, he seems to be sensitive to his life. He is curious about his life and he knows the best way about how to express his emotion at the right time. As Richie is put to the neighbor’s home, he realizes immediately. If he doesn’t call her mother back, he might lose her. I don’t know which the intuition of the child or something else is. However, I think his exclaiming truly saves his mother’s life. I am truly shock when I know Richie is the poet. He chooses to end his life by suicide. At that time, I know the most difficult things in the lives are not to suicide instead of lead a dog’s life. In my opinion, it’s a not easy to understand this movie, because there are still some distant for us to know death exactly. However, the film helps us to think about the meaning of the death. Is that all right for us to know how cherish of lives as long as someone is dead? The dialogue which Virginia said “You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard” truly reminds me. All of us need to fight for our lives. This is a worth exploring movie which I want to recommend. |
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